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Originally Posted by Not Afraid
Have a good time in Boise, ISM. You're a better person than I am.
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Please don't take offense. First of all, I haven't yet bought lunch for anyone from Boise. In fact, I will confess that - for a person of my income bracket - my charitable giving is atrocious (though for a person of my debt level, it's probably on target).
I certainly don't put any moral value on someone buying a $90 shirt or a $1,000 jacket. I'd like my moral alarm to stay silent at
all price levels ... but it
does go off for those $10K suits and those $250K cars. (Let me know when you're ready to spend
that kind of cash, NA ... and we'll be talking more than lunch.)
Still, there's nothing
wrong with someone plunking down $10K on a suit of clothes. It's just not what
I would like to do.
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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke
Fashion can make you seem taller, thinner, wealthier, edgier, or more sophisticated than you really are - sort of cart blanch role playing. ... There is power in image - and I just love how that all works.
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Very interesting stuff. It
is a sort of role play (and, for many of
us, note how often clothing veers decidedly into
costume).
But I think it's limited to "play." For image projection, it only works till you open your mouth. Unless you are putting on a complete act, the look only works as a facade for people who don't actually interact with you. Very limited effectiveness, I'm afraid.
Fun? yes. Pulling the wool over anyone's eyes? Sorry, not with wool alone.
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Originally Posted by Mousewife
Push up bras, water bras. Umm ... I don't know what guys use but .....
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Well, I can't speak for anyone else ... but for
this guy - - it's what I
don't use that adds, umm, umph.
(If I don't wear underwear, my package is simply .... alarming. Ask anyone who's seen me in jeans on a commando day - - or, better yet, seen me in my red long johns of death!)
